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...will depart for Italy to design a 100-foot pink flag for the Venice Biennial Celebration. Byars says that he also runs the "World Question Center," and he adds that he is the only one left in it. The skeptic will naturally ask "Is this his imaginative, and perhaps vain name for his own inquisitive mind?" Byars will answer no. He insists that there is a real Question Center where he collects questions, and even a skeptic would be rash to doubt that such a man collects questions. If you ask a question, he steps as if taken aback...
Harvard's Brendan Meagher opened the scoring when he reached back and whipped one in between Princeton netminder Peter Cordrey's legs. Cordrey tried in vain to bump it out with a leg but only deflected it to the ground where it rolled in with 3:38 gone...
...choosing one course of action over another. It is the choice that gives value to the act, and nothing that is not acted upon has value. Lending a moral dimension to an otherwise indifferent universe, Sartre declared that a person cannot define himself by "disappointed dreams, miscarried hopes or vain expectations." Most people seek to evade responsibility by blaming something or somebody else for their fate. Sartre regarded this as "bad faith." It is the real curse of the characters in his most famous play, No Exit (1944), who whine, "Hell is other people...
Families were meandering around with cameras and water and wrapping the shining foil "Marathon blankets" around the runners to conserve their body heat. Police tried, mostly in vain, to control the jubilant crowd, and hucksters wandered throughout the crowd peddling everything from armbands to yogurt...
...Carlos might have enlisted is Dieter Koenig, a.k.a. Bruno Schilling. Like the real-life Venezuelan terrorist, German-born Bruno is a ferrety connoisseur of chaos: And, like Carlos, Schilling is a vain, insatiable womanizer who has honed boudoir and Beretta skills in North Africa, France and Switzerland. In Paul Henissart's Margin of Error (Simon & Schuster; 334 pages; $10.95), the swaggering former Foreign Legionnaire is assigned to an operation called Grand Slam. Its aim is to assassinate Anwar Sadat and pave the way for a Soviet-managed coup in Cairo. The action takes Bruno, in the footsteps of Cain...